Sentence examples for had collapsed over from inspiring English sources

Mr. Laird, the assistant parks commissioner, said that dozens of piers had collapsed over the decades, the victims of marine borers as well as old age and incessant waves.

But that disguises a 103 point fall on Monday following news that Francois Hollande had won the first round of the French election and the Dutch government had collapsed over disagreements about its proposed austerity budget.

At the bluff's edge were curious squared-off rock formations that seemed not so much products of nature but what was left when a giant's limestone house had collapsed over the side of the cliff, leaving just a few chunks on the edge.

Manufacturing in Britain had collapsed over recent years due to the impact of high energy prices, he argued, warning that the huge Ineos petrochemical plant at Runcorn in Cheshire, which has 1,600 workers, would be closed eventually unless something was done to cut power bills.

The damage done had cut the tracks in Battersea in several places and a viaduct had collapsed over some rails.

At the beginning of the month a bridge had collapsed over the Mississippi in Minnesota during the evening rush hour, dropping cars like pennies into the river.

Not with the way they have collapsed over the last two months.

Since Haiti shook and crumbled, I feel as if something has collapsed over my head, too.

I can't tell you how many cans I've collapsed over the years.

Oil prices have collapsed over the last year due to heavy oversupply.

Such information might explain why songbird populations have collapsed over the past fifty years.